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2 K. ESCOFFRY 2 CHIEF CONGIUSTA: Today's date is January 16, The time is 1320 hours. This is Battalion Chief Frank Congiusta of the Safety Battalion of the New York City Fire Department. I'm conducting an interview with the following individual. Please state your name. FIREFIGHTER ESCOFFRY: Firefighter first grade KENNETH ESCOFFRY. CHIEF CONGIUSTA: Firefighter Escoffry is assigned to Ladder Company 20 of the New York City Fire Department. We're at the quarters of Ladder 20. This interview is regarding the events of September 11th, Q. Kenny, in your own words, if you will just tell us what happened that day. A. On the morning of September 11th about 8:45, I was relieved, and a few of us were standing in front of quarters when we noticed a plane came directly over the firehouse maybe around 8:45, somewhere around that time. One of the guys mentioned that the plane looked like it was really low. Before we could really think of

3 K. ESCOFFRY 3 what he said, the next thing we heard an explosion. We saw the smoke. So the guys in the firehouse suited up and jumped on the rig. We didn't get a run on the teleprinter yet, but they went towards the direction. I guess they got the run as they were moving towards the direction. At first we thought it was just a plane crash. Four of us were left in the firehouse. We turned on the TV, and we noticed that the plane hit the World Trade. (Interruption.) Q. Okay. Go ahead. A. I was saying that the plane had crashed into the World Trade. Four of us jumped in the hazmat rig, and we proceeded down to the World Trade to see if we could help. Two guys went up the staircase from the squad, and myself and George in the truck, we reported to the command station, because we had no tools, no radio, no masks, nothing. When we pulled up, we saw heavy fire, smoke. People were jumping. So we figured we couldn't do much up here without equipment. So

4 K. ESCOFFRY 4 we decided to go to the command station, where Chief Hayden and Chris was, and we asked Chris, the aide, if he knew what floor 20 was on. I believe he said they were up on the 27th floor, somewhere up in that area. Q. This was in the north tower, the command post? A. The north tower. We hung around in the north tower in the lobby for a while. There were jumpers. After a while, body parts were flying into the lobby. Chief Hayden asked myself and George to check out a report of a fire that was on the second floor, the mezzanine. We went up to the mezzanine level, and in the corner, which was exposure 4, we noticed it looked like it was jet fuel that was just running down the side of the building. The fire wasn't spreading or anything. Within that 30-second time we were up there, an EMS worker asked us to come into the staircase to help him remove a person that collapsed in the staircase. After going into the staircase, within another minute or so, there was

5 K. ESCOFFRY 5 a loud explosion. I believe that's when the second plane hit. Q. Let me ask you a question. Do you know what staircase it was? Was it A, B, C staircase? A. That was the staircase in exposure 4. I'm not sure. Q. You're not sure. Okay. A. Once that explosion happened, the door to the staircase slammed shut. When we went back and pushed the door open, we couldn't breathe. The dust particles was all in the lobby. So we kept the door closed, and people that were evacuating down, we wound up evacuating them off that staircase, through a hallway that led back to the exposure 1 side of the building. We evacuated them from there to the second floor, which was the mezzanine, and took them down to the lobby. We took them around to the mezzanine and over the catwalk that went to the building north of tower one, which I believe that's probably building six. Q. The one that goes across? A. Yes, north. The catwalk that you could actually see the cars pass under.

6 K. ESCOFFRY 6 Q. Okay. This one here that goes across West Street? A. No. Q. This one over here? A. Yeah, this is West Street. Where is tower one? Q. Right here. A. The catwalk I guess went across this street here, Vesey and whatever street this is. Q. Oh, okay. A. We led the people across, and they evacuated that way. About an hour later me and George decided let's go out, because we were having difficulty breathing because we didn't have a mask. On the way out between tower one and six, we heard something like an incoming missile, and we started to run. That's when the second tower came down. Q. Tower number two? A. Right. That was the first tower that came down. I was knocked down. When I got up, there was a hose -- I followed a hose out to the

7 K. ESCOFFRY 7 street with water flowing from it. So I washed my face and washed out my mouth. I knew George was behind me, so I called back. Finally he answered me. I told George to come towards my voice. We went back to the pumper and he washed his face, washed out his mouth. We proceeded to wet down our hood and put it over our mouth and nose. We walked it seemed like about five or six blocks before we could even get to somewhere that we could breathe. We got up and started to walk back and forth looking for our company, hoping that maybe they got out. So we spent maybe the next 45 minutes washing up and walking up and down the side, hoping that our company would came out. Q. This is West Street? A. Yeah, West Street. We didn't see our company. Nobody saw them. I guess somewhere by the time we washed up and were walking up and down the west side looking for our company, the second one came down. So we never really got back towards the

8 K. ESCOFFRY 8 tower. We wound up walking to 1 and 7 and tried to get back in touch with Ladder 20. We tried to call back at our company, but all the phones were down so we couldn't get in touch with anybody. So we decided to walk to 8 Truck. We walked to 8. Lieutenant Woods and some of the other officers were over there. That's when I realized from watching the TV exactly what happened. At first I thought maybe just a section of the building came down. Once I saw the TV, I realized the whole building came down. That was it. The whole day we never caught back up with 20. Somewhere later on in the day we worked our way back to 20 Truck. Q. Is there anything else you want to say? A. The farthest we got was maybe like the third, fourth floor, helping to evacuate the civilians. Like I said, we had no lights. The civilians were coming down the staircase. It was dark. We spent maybe 45 minutes in the staircase helping people finding their way out. It just got so bad, we couldn't breathe anymore. We decided to start making our way out. Fortunately we did. Maybe 30 yards from the West Side

9 K. ESCOFFRY 9 Highway, that's when the first tower came down. Q. Thanks a lot for your cooperation. I appreciate it. CHIEF CONGIUSTA: It's 1345 hours, and this concludes this interview.

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